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Micah 3:4
Then you beg the Lord for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to answer? After all the evil you have done, he won’t even look at you!”
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Isaiah 59:2-3
It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your lips are full of lies, and your mouth spews corruption.
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Proverbs 1:28
“ When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
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1 Kings 8 22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven,
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Zechariah 7:13
“ Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Job 27:20
Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.”
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Isaiah 58:7
Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.
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1 Kings 8 54
When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven.
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Jeremiah 7:8-10
“‘ Don’t be fooled into thinking that you will never suffer because the Temple is here. It’s a lie!Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours,and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant,“ We are safe!”— only to go right back to all those evils again?
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Psalms 55:1
Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help!
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Psalms 66:18
If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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Psalms 134:2
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary, and praise the Lord.
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Luke 13:25-28
When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading,‘ Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply,‘ I don’t know you or where you come from.’Then you will say,‘ But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’And he will reply,‘ I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’“ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out.
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
“ Have you seen this, son of man?” he asked.“ Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these detestable sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and provoking my anger?Therefore, I will respond in fury. I will neither pity nor spare them. And though they cry for mercy, I will not listen.”
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1 Timothy 2 8
In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.
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Job 27:8-9
For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?
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Matthew 23:13
“ What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.
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Matthew 6:7
“ When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.
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Ezra 9:5
At the time of the sacrifice, I stood up from where I had sat in mourning with my clothes torn. I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the Lord my God.
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Micah 3:9-11
Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord.“ No harm can come to us,” you say,“ for the Lord is here among us.”